Revolvers in modern movies?

[kmrcstintn]

Blue Steel (1990) w/ Jamie Lee Curtis (NYPD cop w/ S&W 10) and Ron Silver (stalker w/ S&W 29 found at scene of armed robbery)

U.S. Marshals--Wesley Snipes character steals a Ruger SP101 in .38 spl from truck driving couple while kidnapping them in their own rig

Battlestar Galactica (the new one) miniseries & ?1st year of series? the Colonial sidearms were based on a S&W revolver ( http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Small_arms )

Hard Rain--a few characters use revolvers throughout the movie

Dirty Harry series--all sorts of revolvers from 1970's & early 1980's cop culture (S&W 29, Colt Python, Colt snubbies, S&W k-frame snubbies, et al)

Unforgiven--Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and others use older western style single action revolvers

3:10 to Yuma--same thing...single action revolvers galore

Clint Eastwood's 'man without a name' series of spaghetti westerns from the late 1960's--a plethora of single action revolvers

Red Dawn--the rebel group leader has an older single action revolver (used in the last action scene on the Russian army leader); the downed American pilot has a duty sized S&W .38 spl revolver

We Were Soldiers--the helicoptor jockey pulls out a lightweight snubby when he is confronted in the staging area by the medevac group leader

Point Break--bank robbing group leader uses a late model Ruger .44 mag single action; older FBI agent uses a double action snubby

there are more that I have seen, but it is late and I am tired!!!

 

[Dimis]

not a hero but the man that poisoned Chev Chelios in Crank uses a 4 inch S&W500
and hellboys "SEMARITAN" has to be the ultimate hero revolver id say it even beats out dirty harrys imortalized 44 magnum i mean how can it compare it can only blow your head clean off not vaporize your body out from under it lol
seems to me that the wheel gun has gone to the hands of the bad guy with autos as the new good guy gun of choice

 

[Prepster]

The new punisher featured a couple of long bbl S+W 460s (I think).
I haven't seen it yet, but there were a number of revolvers in the trailer for Rock N Rolla.
Sin City has a few Blackhawks, which put quite the smile on my face.
Not a movie, but in the first episode of The Beast a character plays "chicken foot" with a wheelgun of some sort.

 

[ironvic]

Well, it's not a movie, but there's a trailer out for the TV series "Bones". Bones and her partner are approaching a house and draw their weapons. She pulls a big (really BIG) stainless snub nose revolver out of her purse. Her partner says something like, "Geez, why didn't ya bring the big one?"

 

[XD9WBT]

This site might help
http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Category:Gun

 

[jason97496]

Payback

Mel Gibson "Payback". I hate watching movies that I have already seen. I make an exception for this one. I really like this movie. I have seen it four times now.

If anybody knows the make, caliber, etc. for the guns used in this movie, I am very curious.

 

[glock_17_4U]

ugh...you missed a big 1

in the latest puisher flop, the anti-hero carried a huge s'n'w something or other.

 

[krs]

"Went to the above website and hmmm... the pics on that Manurhin 73 are inconsistent. One pic shows barrel roll marked 9mm PARA and the other pics are clearly .357 Mag,"

It's France where things are metric, but a 9mm bullet and a .357 bullet are within a thousandth of each other. Europeans even call the Makarov with a bullet diameter some .009" larger than those a 9mm pistol. 9x17mm = .380, 9x18mm = Makarov, 9x19 + 9mm para.

So in Europe it's close enough, I guess.

 

[UnclePete]

In the 2007 movie 'The Flock' Richard Gere carries a revolver, I'm not the one to identify it.

 

[twoclones]

The murderer on last night's episode of Miami CSI used a stainless revolver for his gang initiation.

 

[Malodorousroadkill]

In the remake of Dawn of the Dead, several revolvers are used. The truck driving woman, Norma is using a S&W 19. Two of the security guards use model 13 S&Ws. And the lead guard, CJ, is using a model 27.

 

[bp78]

Snatch (2000)
Boris The Blade: [referring to the [stainless revolver] he sold Tommy] Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work... you can always hit them with it.
Of course, later in the film it only goes 'click' and Tommy isn't exactly the hero of the film.

 

[steveracer]

Just saw Black Dahlia the other night, and our hero uses a Smith N-frame. He does a partial reload with a 1/3rd moonclip during a firefight. First time I ever saw that in a movie.
Steve

 

[BlayGlock]

Someone already mentioned Max Payne's Judge. I was watching another film Rocknrolla (Guy Ritchie film like Snatch) and one of the guys uses a revolver, I didnt look at it closely but it looked like a Smith mod 15(?) maybe. Guy uses a Colt Python in 2 Resident Evil movies. Guy also used Smith M66(?) in Watchmen to try an assassinate someone, and the Joker gives Harvey Dent a Smith .357 in the Dark Knight.

 

[LoneCoon]

Watchmen had one. A model 10 used by Silk Specter II to shoot Ozymandias.

Actually, that's the only hero in the entire film to use a firearm at all. I'm not sure I'd consider the Comedian or Ozymandias a hero

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

[/IMG]The guns of Indiana Jones. The last movie only used the Webley for Indiana's sidearm. I'm a big fan of the first movie, and the S&W. The Browning was used in the bar shootout, and carried but not shot on the merchant vessel. The real movie Webley is believed to be a Webley-Green .455....out of my price range for lusting of movie guns. All of these ratty old guns shoot better than they look.

 

[steveracer]

Nice little collection you have there. I love the Indiana Jones movies!

 

[The Wiry Irishman]

In Brick (2005), the only gun you see in the whole movie, all though definitely not in the hands of a hero, is a 4" GP100.

 

[Rexster]

Black Rain, with Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia playing police detectives, shows them using revolvers. At least one was a 2.5" S&W M19, if I remember correctly.

Extreme Prejudice shows the main bad guy using a snubby S&W N-frame.

Lone Star shows South Texas lawmen using single action sixguns, in an era that it would have been more normal to see DA sixguns. The crooked sheriff carried a Colt New Frontier.

In the first of the Kill Bill movies, the main bad guy uses a single action sixgun. I didn't see the second one.

In the flick in which Nick Nolte played a cop, and Eddie Murphy an informant, Nolte's character uses an S&W .44, until a bad guy steals it, and that bad guy then uses it. IIRC, Nolte getting his .44 back is a major theme of the plot, though I can't remember the details. Another bad guy in that flick used a high-end SA sixgun. I haven't seen this one in a LONG time, so I can't recall the title.

 

[Dr. Fresh]

Tommy blew apart a cheap revolver shooting Billy Bats in "Goodfellas."

Actually, it was DeNiro's character Jimmy who shot Billy Bats, and I don't remember the revolver exploding. Dunno how I could miss something like that, haha..

Tommy stabs him instead of shooting him. It's definitely the most shocking scene in the movie.

 

[steveracer]

It's a Dick Special, and it comes apart while he's beating him with it.

 

[theken206]

hard boiled comes to mind of the top of my head

 

[barman]

Went to the above website and hmmm... the pics on that Manurhin 73 are inconsistent. One pic shows barrel roll marked 9mm PARA and the other pics are clearly .357 Mag

I think each Manurhin MR73 was sold with 2 inter-changeable cylinders, one for 9mm parabellum, the other for .357 Magnum.

 

[clang]

I think there was a good revolver shootout in Black Sunday. It included reloads with speedloaders.

 

[strangelittleman]

How about Dead Bang(1989) w/ Don Johnson carrying a 6" Python.
Flash Point(1984) Kris Kristofferson & Treat Williams carrying S&W M28s.
The Departed w/ "Mr.French and his 2 1/2" Python.
The Border (1981) w/ Jack Nicholson carrying (at different times) a S&W 27 & M19.